Show plane speeds sagebrush spray by lorin hunt boll ConT service t several of tho the local ranchers have sprayed big sagebrush with 2 ad for range improvement this spring aerial spray applicators of salt lake city contracted the work for 2 05 95 an acre the uintah county committee approved cost share chare for III 90 percent of the cost up to 1000 per individual and the soli roil conservation service gave technical assistance to the ranchers cliff mccoy sprayed acres ed curfew acres B D 11 II 00 acres woodey searle acres N J meagher acres harold calder acres all on diamond mountain douglas chew acres on blue mountain and walt smith acres near tationa tabiona john L plans to du acres within the next week these projects will be in ie ia resting to watch and give us a demonstration under local c ai conditions of this method of sage saga control in selecting the areas to be 9 sprayed rayed the rancher and donald arld fulton range con surveyed the areas to see it if the range was in good condition and that good high yielding native grasses were present so that good range improvement could be expected ed curfew sprayed acres last year with ground application equipment and an interesting comparison between the hie ground spraying he did last year and spraying with the airplane can be made any additional tion on sage brush control can be obtained from the local soil conservation service office or from your county agent |